Altenkirchen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Old churches is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen on the belonging to Rugen peninsula Wittow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is administered by the Office North Rügen with its headquarters in the town of Sagard. Well known is the parish church in the Old Church, which gave the place its name.
Geography and spatial structure
Old churches is between Tromper Wiek to the east and the open Baltic Sea in the north. The municipality comprises the central part of the peninsula Wittow. The hilly municipality is almost free of forest to the coastal forests in the north and east, and is mostly used for agriculture.
In the north of the municipality a cliff path along the Baltic coast runs to Cape Arkona. This path is tangent to the recreation area Bakenberg with sandy beach below the cliffs and the coastal forest.
The municipality consists of the districts:
- Old churches
- Drewoldke
- Gudderitz
- Lanckensburg
- Mattchow
- Schwarbe
- Presenske
- Wollin
- Zühlitz
History
The construction of the church was probably started as early as 1185. In it, a stone from the Jaromarsburg was used, the sanctuary of the Svetovid of Cape Arkona. The stone is called the priest stone or Svantevitstein. Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten was from 1792 to 1808 at this church pastor.
The place was until 1326 part of the Principality of Rügen and then the Duchy of Pomerania. With the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 Rügen was and thus the area of old churches, a part of Swedish Pomerania. In 1815, old churches came as part of Neuvorpommern to the Prussian province of Pomerania.
Since 1818 Old churches belonged to the circle or district Rügen. Only in the years 1952 to 1955 it was the county mountains belong. The village belonged until 1990 to Rügen county in the district of Rostock and in the same year part of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. The 1990 re- designated as the Rügen was 2011 in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen.
Attractions
→ See also List of monuments in old churches (Rügen)
- Romanesque three-nave parish church of old churches, a pillar basilica from 1168 and thus next to St. Mary's Church (Bergen ), the oldest church on Rügen. Apse and choir were completed around 1200. The 6- jochige originally flat -roofed house (church) received a ribbed vault in derSpätgotik. The detached belfry of the church dates from the 17th century.
- Cemetery with Portal: Among the existing old grave cheeks is the grave of the poet, pastor and professor Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten.
- The manor house from the 18th century in Lanckensburg no longer exists since 1960. There are still a barn / stable with the later storage in dilapidated condition.
Watch and clock tower Old Churches
Houses in Old Churches
Manor house Lanckensburg
Ion probe station Drewoldke with transmitter antenna
Fischer Homes in Gudderitz 1962/63
Sunset over the campsite Drewoldke
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Barthold of Krakevitz (1582-1642), from Presenke, theologian, General Superintendent in Pomerania
- Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten (1792-1860), German Orientalist and linguist
- Alwill Baier (1811-1892), German philosopher and theologian
- Georg Julius Berling (1817-1873), German physician, Low German writer
- Otto Fock (1819-1872), from Schwarbe, German theologian and historian
- Paul Lockenvitz (1876-1961), German politician ( DDP)
Personalities who have worked on site
- Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1758-1818), pastor of the parish church
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Schubert (1788-1856), pastor of the parish church
- Oskar von Sydow (1811-1886), pastor of the parish church
- Richard Kabisch (1868-1914), theologian, as curate and rector